Thursday, December 31, 2015

It’s the end of January and
depending on where you live, it’s the perfect season to snuggle up with a
chunkster. (Really any time is a good time to crack open a chunkster.) More
than 100 people have signed up for the Chunkster Challenge so far!! Thank you.

Every month, you can find announcements
about chunkster read-alongs, guest posts, and anything else chunkster-related
that I can think of.

Saturday, May 2, 2015

It’s time for the next link-up! How are you guys
doing with the challenge? Have you read any chunksters that you just loved? I
hope you all had a chance to take a book outside and enjoy some nice spring
weather by now.

This linky
will be up from now until September 10th.

Remember:

When
you provide your link, please link up directly to your review and use the
following format:

Your
Name (Title of Book - page count)

Also,
if you read a chunkster in large print, please put LP behind your page count. I've seen links to books
that aren't normally chunksters. A chunkster is a book that is 450 PAGES OR
LONGER.

Wednesday, February 4, 2015

If you decided that 2015 was the year you
were finally going to tackle War and
Peace, then I have the perfect read-along for you. Hanna over at Booking in
Heels is hosting the War
and Peace Read-along. The event started a few days ago but continues until
April 13th, so you have plenty of time to get your copy and start
reading. You can find more information at the link above.

Saturday, January 24, 2015

Hey guys! Bloomsbury USA sent me an ARC (advance
reading copy) of Children of the Stone:
The Power of Music in a Hard Land by Sandy Tolan. The book won’t be
released in stores until April 2015 and one lucky Chunkster participant can win
this copy.

Publisher’s synopsis:

Children
of the Stone is the unlikely story of Ramzi Hussein Aburedwan, a kid from a
Palestinian refugee camp who confronts an occupying army, gets an education,
masters an instrument, dreams of something much bigger than himself, and then,
through his charisma and persistence, inspires scores of others to work with
him to make that dream real. That dream: a music school in the midst of a refugee
camp, a school to transform the lives of thousands of children-as Ramzi's life
was transformed-through music.

Daniel
Barenboim, the Israeli musician and music director of La Scala in Milan and the
Berlin Opera, is among those who help Ramzi realize his dream. He has played
with Ramzi frequently–at chamber music concerts in Al-Kamandjati, the school
Ramzi worked so hard to build, and in the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra that
Barenboim founded with the late Palestinian intellectual, Edward Said.

Theirs
is a story about music, first, but also about freedom and conflict;
determination and vision. It's a vivid portrait of life amid checkpoints and
military occupation, a growing movement of nonviolent resistance, the past and
future of musical collaboration across the Israeli-Palestinian divide, and the
potential of music to help children see new possibilities for their lives.
Above all, Children of the Stone chronicles the journey of one man, Ramzi
Aburedwan, and how he and his cohorts navigated against the odds to create
something lasting and beautiful in a war-torn land.

To win this copy, you HAVE to be a Chunkster Challenge 2015 participant and live in the United States. Leave a
comment below to enter the contest. You don’t have to leave your email address
if it’s on your Blogger profile. I’ll randomly choose the winner on Saturday,
January 31, 2015. The winner has 24 hours to contact me with their mailing
information. If I do hear from the winner within that time, another winner will
be chosen.

Good luck!

This contest is now closed! Congratulations to Joy! Stay tuned for the next giveaway!

Hey guys! Instead of posting a monthly link-up post, for now on, I'm going to post a quarterly Mr. Linky for participants to use. Mr. Linky will be good for the next four months, from now until the end of April.

Remember:

When you provide your link, please link up directly to your review and use the following format:

Your Name (Title of Book - page count)

Also, if you read a chunkster in large print, please put LP behind your page count. I've seen links to books that aren't normally chunksters. A chunkster is a book that is 450 PAGES OR LONGER.

Just
like last year, there won’t be any levels with this challenge. How you
challenge yourself is up to you. Read 1 book for this challenge or 20. It’s all
up to you.

I
understand that chunksters can be a bit intimidating. My goal is to encourage
as many people as possible to give chunksters a try. We all love short books
because we can get through them in a sitting or a few days. It’s different with
chunksters. With chunksters, you have to slow down and take your time. The
Chunkster Challenge is all about having fun and reading good books.

All
I ask is that participants either write a post or leave a comment in the
comments section letting the world know that you’re participating. You can also link directly to your post about this challenge below in Mr. Linky.

I’ll be right here to cheer you on. Happy
reading.Mr. Linky is now closed. Please leave your link in the comments.